The Harbins: August 2013

This summer has been somewhat of a blur. Between me being sick with morning/allday sickness and in a daze since May and Justin doing everything for our family, we pretty much just took it one day at a time. Justin and Max had LOTS of fun together! They've been hiking, frisbee golfing, fishing, gardening and using tools (max's favorite). Max is such an explorer and adventurer and we are really learning how curious he can be. I don't think there is an inch of our house that he hasn't conquered.

Probably since Max is our first child, a day hardly goes by that Justin and I don't say to each other.. "oh my gosh did you see what Max did?". Sometimes its something cute and adorable and shows how independent he is becoming- like getting a dish rag and cleaning up his dripped milk on the floor without any prompting, or gathering up his stuffed bear and a pile of books to sit at his little table and read by himself for awhile. Other times, its climbing on toys to reach the top of a dresser drawer and dumping out a container of thumb tacks all over the floor, or knocking jars of spices on the floor until the lid pops off and we have a large oregano confetti situation in the kitchen. It sounds like we let him run around unsupervised all day, but both these things happened when we were within feet of Max.. It just happens so fast! Can I get an "amen" from you parents of toddlers out there? : )

Despite me not feeling well this summer, Max's sense of humor or giggles are contagious and we still had lots of fun! He loves chasing Justin around the house, wrestling, getting tickled, singing songs with movements and dancing, and most recently just running squealing around the house until he finds the person he is looking for and running into their arms for a huge hug. Life doesnt get any better!

Okay enough updates about Max. I could talk about him forever! Onto the fun vacation pics! We were at the beach for over a week, so here are pics from the first few days of vacation. It was a full house- Sarah and Garon both came for the whole week.. yaaay! But the first day was just me, Justin, Max and my Mom. We headed to the beach for a few hours because we just couldn't wait. For this first day, Max let us hold on to him while waiting for the waves to comes.. that didn't last too long.

Lots of work to be done...

Most nights, if you couldn't find Justin, he was out on the pond fishing!

Hmmm...

Then Sarah, Garon and my Dad joined us- Max had lots of playmates! My Grandmother stayed with Aunt Suzy (her sister) and Uncle Tom right in Bethany Beach so they got to join us for lots of festivities too (pictures in the next post)

Max's Aunt Sarah, the model.

Let's all take a moment and remember when I looked this good in a bikini before I got pregnant!

I love this picture. Max and his Nana.

"No, I did not put the sand in my mouth.."

Giving Mommy a workout.. chasing Max around

As Max got more brave, he just wanted to run straight into the waves...

And then out of them.. "no hand holding please"!

Pure joy!

Two peas in a pod..

Uncle Garon gets a special Max hug.. lucky duck!

Swimming with the dolphins

Sarah can make anything fun..

Garon graciously shared his coveted beach space with Max for a few moments.

I think he wanted to see the blow up whale that Aunt Sarah bought Max!

And this was just the beginning of vacation!!! More fun to come!

I started this post at my parents beach house in Bethany Beach in the middle of our amazing 9 day beach vacation last week. The days got away from me and I never posted it oops. I figure I better post pictures from our FIRST beach trip this year with Max before I post our August vacation pics. . We went to Bethany for a weekend in July and re-introduced Max to the sand and ocean.. of course he loved it! I wouldn't expect anything else.. its in his genes. : )

Oh Hi Beach! I remember you from last year..